Critisism_of_Robert_Burns

Critisism of Robert Burns Robert Burns represented the true Scotsman who openly expressed himself. He often talked of love and how love is represented, the Church as a whole and how it was corrupted, and how the rich and poor of society was totally differently. Most critics say that the Church was Robert Burns' favorite subject to write about. However, I feel that society was his favorite subject. In this poetry he represented the middle-class of society. Robert Burns wrote during the Romantic Age. At this time people were beginning to question society and its ways. Burns was one of the greatest poets of this time. Burns was sometimes referred to as the National Poet of Scotland. Burns lived a shortened life and by his mid twenties he had been in and out of a few love affairs. Hew spent his last days traveling to Northern England, and the Scottish Highlands to find traditional songs and ballads. Burns wrote more than 300 original songs. Burns was a poet who wrote what the people of society was thinking, but more specifically the people of middle-class society. He often wrote of public issues and political issues. In "Twa Dogs", Burns discusses the burns, robert, wrote, church, society, people, poor, middle-class, time, scotsman, scotland, represented, love, defined, william, thinking, scottish, rich, poems, man, life, himself, fisher, cotter, burns', asks, affairs, writer, working, willie's, twain, true, subject, sexual, prayer, poets, poetry, poet, one, often, issues, involved, holy, hardship, hard, god, few, favorite, elderly, elder